CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 24 September 2010

24 September 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• ENOVIA SmarTeam Visual ETO (CIMdata Commentary)

Company News

• Altair Expands Troy, Mich. Operations with Purchase of 136,000-Square-Foot Annex Facility
• Appointment of Nanno Wams as Chief Financial Officer of ESI Group
• Bentley Appoints Norbert Young, Jim Porter, and Patrick McCrory to New Bentley Infrastructure Ambassadors Council
• CAD Gorilla Releases 2011 AutoCAD Essentials Video Training
• CGTech Opens Subsidiary in Brazil
• PTC Names Jeffrey D. Glidden as CFO
• Surfware Appoints M/s Ambition Technologies as Educational VAR in India
• Switzerland’s cBcon services ag Establishes Strategic Alliance with Pilgrim Software to Offer Global Enterprise Technology Solutions
• Tata Technologies Names Trident Tech Labs a Standard Reseller of i PRODUCTS
• Technia Enters into Strategic Partnership with Transcat PLM
• Tesla Motors’ Model S Pulls Up to Its New Home in the Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco
• Zuken Appoints New E³.WireWorks Reseller for Western United States

Events News

• AspenTech Customers Braskem and Transpetro Present Best Practices in Process Optimization at Rio Oil & Gas 2010 Conference
• Cadac Organice Americas Organizes Webinar Series: SharePoint meets Engineering
• CENIT to Present at SAP Product Lifecycle Management Conference 2010 in Munich
• CENIT to Showcase the Latest SAP PLM 7 Solutions for Automotive
• Delcam Claims IMTS Success Proves US Recovery is Under Way
• Delcam Offers More Accurate Dental CADCAM at AMB Medical
• Delcam to Launch Japanese CAM for SolidWorks at JIMTOF
• Delcam to Preview Safest-Ever PowerMILL CAM at BIMU
• Intergraph® to Host 2010 CADWorx® University on September 27-29 in Houston, Texas
• MSC.Software Teams with Oracle at the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 Conference
• M2 Technologies Hosts Inventor Challenge Event: A 3D Modeling Face Off
• PLM Seminar Fashion, Apparel and Consumer Goods October 8, 2010
• Schott Systeme Showcase CAD/CAM to the Asian Market
• Si2 Announces the 15th Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference

Financial News

• Aspen Technology Announces Pricing of Secondary Public Offering
• Avatech Solutions to Report Annual Fiscal 2010 Results on September 28, 2010
• Comet Solutions® Revenues Increase 400%
• Magma Announces Conversion of Outstanding 2014 Notes -- Remaining Convertible Debt Reduced to $3.3 Million
• Tanner EDA Announces Solid Growth in Revenue and Technology for Fiscal 2010

Implementation Investments

• Components from TraceParts Catalogs are Used Everywhere, Even on the Planet Mars
• Dassault Systèmes : AgustaWestland Chooses V6 for Production and Supplier Collaboration Excellence
• Delcam’s Tribrid Modelling produces “Waffle” Phone First at LG
• Domespace Chooses SolidWorks Software As Foundation of New Online System for Designing Eco-Friendly Homes
• Sanitec Goes Live with IFS Applications in the Nordic Region
• Solar Power Leader Torresol Energy Selects IFS Applications
• Talgo Selects MSC.Software CAE Solutions for the Virtual Prototyping of High Speed Train
• Virginia Tech Uses MSC.Software’s Technology for NASA Fixed Wing Research

Product News

• Adept Engineering Document Management Achieves Autodesk’s Inventor 2010 and 2011 Certification
• Agilent Technologies Begins Unveiling ADS 2011 for Multi-Technology Design
• ANSYS Unveils GPU Computing for Accelerated Engineering Simulations
• AVEVA Responds To Customer Demand for Migration-ready Instrumentation Solution
• AVEVA Review Harnesses 64-Bit Power for 3D Model Visualisations of Unprecedented Size
• CAD Schroer Introduces STHENO/LX; Intelligent, Dynamic 2D Drafting For Linux®, Windows®
• Dassault Systèmes’ DraftSight Now Available for Mac OS
• Delcam Partners with CADENAS for Free 3D CAD Part Catalogues
• Early Adopter Program and Partner Momentum Lay the Foundation for Oracle Fusion Applications
• HP Unveils World’s Most Collaborative Large-format Printer Solutions
• Introduction of Android and iPhone Apps on Advanced PLM Platform Marks another PLM Industry First for Aras
• New Mentor Embedded ReadyStart Provides Highly Integrated, Ready-to-Use Software Platform for Embedded Systems Development
  
• New Synopsys HSPICE Precision Parallel Technology Delivers Up to 7X Speed-up for Analog/Mixed-Signal Designs
• Open Text Unveils ECM Suite 2010, Marking a New Era of Integration
• Oracle Launches New Tools for Reducing E-Waste and Simplifying Regulatory Compliance
• Oracle Unveils New Environmental Sustainability Management Offering for Manufacturers and Commercial Facilities
• Oracle Unveils Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8
• SAP® Carbon Impact OnDemand Goes Global

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/polls/polls.html. Each week the results of the previous poll will be included in the CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to help you stay on top of trends in the PLM industry.

Take a moment to visit the site and vote on our current poll.

The results for the last opinion poll are:

23% of respondents continue to execute at least half of their design work in 2D. This would not be surprising if the responses were representative of global practice. We know that a lot of design on a worldwide basis is still done using 2D drawings (note that 2D design can be quite appropriate for certain situations such as basic turned parts). The interesting factor in this survey is that almost 1/3 of respondents report that they do ALL of their design in 3D. This indicates that many organizations are abandoning 2D altogether. We can only assume that these are companies that design products at the higher end of the product complexity scale.

A follow on question is to understand how many companies continue to use drawings to communicate their design work to manufacturing and to their partners. We will pose this question in a future poll.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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